Amir G. Aghdam received the B.A.Sc. degree from Isfahan University of
Technology, Isfahan, Iran and the M.A.Sc. degree from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran,
both in Electrical Engineering. He taught in Sharif University of Technology
and Aerospace University in Iran as an instructor for two years, and received
the outstanding instructor of the year award in 1992. Dr. Aghdam received his
Ph.D. degree from the University of Toronto in 2000 and worked as a development
engineer at Voyan Technology, Santa Clara, California
from 2000 to 2001. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the systems control
group of the University of Toronto for six months and then joined the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Concordia University as an
assistant professor in June 2002. Dr. Aghdam received many awards during his
academic career, including the 2009 IEEE Achievement Award, the 2008 ENCS Young
Research Achievement Award (Tier II), and the 2008 ENCS Masters Guidance Award
at the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, Concordia University. He is
a member of Professional Engineers Ontario and a senior member of the IEEE. Dr.
Aghdam served as Chair of the IEEE Montreal Section and Chair of the Control
Systems Chapter of the IEEE Montreal Section in 2005 and 2006, and has been
elected chair of IEEE Eastern Canada Area since January 2007. He has published
more than 100 refereed papers, books and book chapters, and has received $2.4M
research grant since June 2002 (as an individual or joint grantee) from
different grant agencies and industry. He has also been a consultant for Centillium, Inc. and GlobVision,
Inc. Dr. Aghdam is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Systems Journal, Editor-in-Chief
of IEEE Canadian Review, and has also been a member of the Technical Program
Committee for IEEE Conference on Control Applications (IEEE CCA), IEEE Canadian
Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (IEEE CCECE), IEEE Conference
on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC), IEEE Conference on System of
Systems Engineering (IEEE SoSE), IEEE Canada
Electrical and Power Energy Conference (IEEE EPEC), IEEE Conference on Decision
and Control (IEEE CDC), and IEEE Multiconference on
Systems and Control (IEEE MSC). His research interests include decentralized
control of large-scale systems, multi-agent systems, adaptive switching
control, and sampled-data systems.
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